Does LU4 flood?

Yes — parts of the LU4 district carry real flood risk: 3 of its 37 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The LU4 postcode district covers Leagrave, Lewsey, close to Stopsley, Markyate, Upper Lee, and surrounding villages in parts of Central Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire.

37 postcodes in the LU4 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 3 high, 6 medium, 15 low, 13 very low. A postcode not listed here has no properties in any recorded risk band (which is good news, but never proof it cannot flood).

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Which LU4 postcodes are at risk?

LU4 9JA up to High LU4 9YB up to High LU4 9YD up to High LU4 9AN up to Medium LU4 9BB up to Medium LU4 9BD up to Medium LU4 9HX up to Medium LU4 9HY up to Medium LU4 9JB up to Medium LU4 0TY up to Low LU4 9AB up to Low LU4 9AL up to Low LU4 9BQ up to Low LU4 9DF up to Low LU4 9DR up to Low LU4 9EH up to Low LU4 9HT up to Low LU4 9JG up to Low LU4 9LU up to Low LU4 9LX up to Low LU4 9ND up to Low LU4 9NE up to Low LU4 9YF up to Low LU4 9YH up to Low LU4 9BE up to Very low LU4 9EA up to Very low LU4 9EF up to Very low LU4 9EG up to Very low LU4 9EU up to Very low LU4 9EW up to Very low LU4 9EY up to Very low LU4 9FD up to Very low LU4 9HA up to Very low LU4 9HB up to Very low LU4 9JH up to Very low LU4 9PD up to Very low LU4 9PE up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near LU4

The rivers that matter here, each monitored live on FloodRadar:

4 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (4 at warning level or above), most recently 22 September 2024. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

Recorded flood extents near the district (Environment Agency record):

Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

LU3 LU5 LU2 LU6 LU1 LU7

Band = the worst likelihood band of any property in that postcode (EA Risk of Flooding from Rivers & Sea, defence-adjusted, area-level). Check any postcode in detail — or get the full £19 property report — at the property flood-risk report. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. Some features of this map are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH). © Crown Copyright and Database Rights 2025 OS AC0000807064. This product is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, the copyright in which is owned by Royal Mail Group Limited and/or Royal Mail Group plc. All rights reserved. Licence number AC0000807064.